6860fx hdmi poor audio quality

After a year of putting up with this I finally turn here for help.

I have a dvd player and a cable box both connected with hdmi and they sound just fine. The laptop also sounds fine if I connect external speakers directly to the mini stereo jack but the following combination drives me crazy.

I have my latop connected to my samsung lcd 4066f via hdmi but the sound coming from my tv speakers is inexplicably bad. There is slight distortion and as the volume is increased it becomes more obvious. It makes a scratchy pitch that gets more annoying as the number of sounds goes up.

For example, listening to windows system sounds probably wouldn't indicate a problem but the sound frequency in games is definitely unnatural.

Switching hdmi cables didnt help, messing with the sampling frequency in the IDT panel just made me more confused . Does anybody actually know why some frequencies work and others don't? I think 96 and 192 work all the time and sometimes I hear a sound from 48 kHZ and sometimes I don't, 44.1 is just plain broken .

All that frequency talk aside, as mentioned, I get clear sound from PC speakers when connected through the 3.5mm jack.

 

What driver are you using?

I've never had a bit of problems from my HDMI and i watch movies from it all the time. Have you tried playing with your advanced sound settings.

I know when i tried to output Studio Quality one time i ended up almost making my TV explode (i think, but that may just been me freaking out at the sounds coming out of the speakers)

 

I'm using the newest driver from nvidia 186.03.
I've used other drivers 175.63, 177.89 that were no better. Actually the newest driver gave me a glimmer of hope as it played music a bit better but then as soon as I fired up a game my enthusiasm vanished .

Do you have a particular setting in mind?
I also want to try out that studio setting, where can I find it?

 

Your HDMI driver is different than your nVidia driver. Theres a seperate one for it (check Gateways website i believe there are 2 or 3 listed there)

Sound setting under the advanced tab on the "speaker" icon on your tray. Sometimes something is just set wacky and screws with your sound quality. You can also get to it through your HDMI audio settings for a couple of different options

 

I don't see a hdmi driver on gateway's website for my laptop model 6860fx.
I see 1 for the 7800 laptop series.

 

http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/search.asp?st=pn&param=1015340R

Look under sound drivers.

I'm not sure if the 78xx series HDMI drivers will work with our systems (68xx series) but if you're willing to expirement then that would be cool to know if they work.

 

Oh sorry I didn't realize you meant sound drivers.

I have vista 64 bit so naturally I was looking for 64 bit sound drivers and gateway doesn't provide a driver for vista 64 bit. Unbelievable!

I remember now my frustration months ago when I tried upgrading my drivers. After cursing out IDT and gateway I finally found a tweaked desktop idt driver for laptops (64 bit)which is what I have now but the driver didn't do the trick and I ruled out the driver issue.

I may try that newest 32-bit 6.10.5939 but I doubt Vista will let me install it.

I take it you have vista 32-bit on yours?

 

The 32bit driver is the one your looking for (it will install on your vista 64)

I'm actually running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 right now. And i installed that driver just fine. You should have no issues

 

Thank You Kamin_Majere!

I can finally listen to the great Sultans of Swing sound in crystal clear quality! -Yeaaaaaaaa

 

No worries.

Though, you should get a bit of Ol' Blue-eyes in there. Nothing cooler than Frank